While watching Buffy the vampire slayer tv shows over the years, I've come to realize that Giles (the watcher), has been knocked out way too many times to still be able to function. I looked on-line to see exactly how many times but there is nothing. I decided to try and do that count myself. I didn't think to write down the episodes he got knocked out etc until after I already did the count and I wasn't about to watch them all over again since that is a lot o episodes to go through. Anyways, here are my results for those who are curious.
Times knocked out in the series: 9 times, most of it happened in the earlier seasons.
He also was tortured but Dru, chloroformed and had his head banged up against the wall several times in one episode. He was beat up pretty bad and almost died in the episode where Willow is all powerful and in the very last episode of the series, he is banged up pretty bad.
WOW! There is no way that Giles could get out of all of that without being messed up or dead. He would be in a coma, have brain damage or just dead. Good thing it's just tv.
So there you have it, a short run down on how many times Giles was knocked out and banged up pretty bad.
